 Industry in the woreda includes 10 grain mills employing 31 people, as well as 671 registered businesses of which 23% were wholesalers, 40% retailers and 36% service providers.There were 32 Farmers Associations with 14,991 members and 6 Farmers Service Cooperatives with 14,315 members.Sherka has 77 kilometers of dry-weather and 22 of all-weather road, for an average road density of 91.6 kilometers per 1000 square kilometers, which the Oromia state government notes has not been maintained; 34 kilometers of road between Gobesa and Bekoji, and 15 kilometers from Gobesa to Tareta are in the planning stages.